Whatever Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's other faults, lack of candor isn't one of them. This week the U.N. Security Council is set to begin discussing the imposition of (very) limited sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment to build a nuclear weapon.

And so, with his usual sense of timing, the Iranian President issued the following public warning to Europe ...

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